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Congratulations go to NEN Member, Let’s Do Business Group, on its recent win of Outstanding Small or Medium Employer of the Year, in the Careers & Enterprise Company Annual Awards 2018. The award is in recognition of Let’s Do Business’ work supporting schools and colleges around the South East with their careers programmes.

Essex businesses are being given the opportunity to access up to £8,000 of funding to put towards improvement the management & leadership of their organisation, with the funding now extended past the end of the month.

NEN Member, the Colchester Business Enterprise Agency (Colbea) has teamed up with training provider The Lighthouse Group to help businesses gain access to the funding, available through The Apprenticeship Levy which was introduced by the Government in April 2017.

The Best Business Women Awards – recognising and rewarding the achievements of successful businesswomen – have launched for the 4th year running.

Wagada, a digital marketing agency based within the offices of NEN Member STANTA, is delighted to be sponsoring the Best New Business Award as part of this year’s Best Business Women Awards, which launched earlier this month.

A new system that tracks children’s behaviour and their educational journey has been given the green light thanks to a £40k loan from the NEN member, Business Enterprise Fund.

Trackit Lights is an interactive behavioural management system, used by schools to display child behaviour using the traditional ‘traffic lights’ method; students are rated green for good behaviour, amber for a warning and red for low level behaviour.

Team NEN member, the Colchester Business Enterprise Agency (Colbea) has announced Essex accountants Jamesons as the latest business to sponsor the enterprise agency’s work in the Colchester business community.

As the first action of their sponsorship Jamesons, one of the region’s leading independent accountancy firms, will deliver an Accounting Advice Surgery for local businesses at the Central Colchester Business Centre on 5th June 2018.

We’d like to wish the very best to Terry Gilbert, Business Counsellor at TeamNEM member, North Somerset Enterprise Agency (NSEA), as he begins his retirement after two decades of supporting local enterprise.

#TeamNEN member, Newcastle-based social enterprise PNE Group have welcomed a new member to its Board.

Irene Allcroft joins a strong Board of non-executive directors who will support the social enterprise to embark on its delivery of promoting positive social and economic change through enterprise development.

National Enterprise Network is a member of the Small Business Taskforce. This month they have set out a 10-point manifesto to government. The taskforce, a collective of 11 organisations that represent two million small firms and self-employed individuals, will highlight points from the manifesto in upcoming meetings with ministers and policy makers. The 10 points in the manifesto provide […]

Twelve new North Somerset businesses opened their doors and began trading in January creating 20 new jobs, with help from #TeamNEN member North Somerset Enterprise Agency. Pet wear and accessories, educational workshops, baby and parenting classes, translation services, a pre-school and a building firm were just some of the enterprises to launch, with new business […]